Professional Advice for Barristers Looking for a Career Change

Feeling uncertain about your future?

Work / life balance becoming an issue?

Is a career at the Bar still attractive?

With increasing pressure on fees, rising expenses and long hours, the demands of the Bar can lead to high levels of pressure and stress. Finding someone to talk to candidly about your concerns, your working relationships with colleagues in Chambers, and your own career can be difficult.

Whether you are in a set of barristers’ chambers, in employed practice with a company or organisation, or in pupillage, our experienced coaches can help you gain control over your career direction, understand the options open to you and progress more quickly – inside or outside the legal profession.

As ex-lawyers ourselves we are familiar with many of the issues you face as your career develops. As you gain experience you may be asking yourself whether you will be successful at the Bar or whether you should consider going in-house in the commercial or public sectors, or joining a firm of solicitors. Can you take a career break, or a further qualification, and is it possible to return to the Bar after such a break or a move outside?

For more senior barristers whether to apply for silk, take a judicial appointment or when to retire can all be major challenges.

We have developed career decision-making and planning programmes which help you understand your strengths, potential and transferable skills, and identify your future career direction. We can help you prepare for interviews and assessment days for new roles, or to progress further at the Bar, assisting you in moving towards the next stage of your career.

Completing your own Career and Personal Review will help you to take control and achieve a more rewarding work / life balance. The starting point for this, a Diagnostic Career Consultation, costs just £145 for more junior members of chambers or £175 for senior / experienced barristers. Many clients tell us that having an experienced sounding board helped them better understand the different options open to them and to feel much more confident in making well-informed decisions going forward.

Simon Broomer LLB, a qualified lawyer and career counsellor with experience across the professions, leads our legal team. Simon has provided training and development for solicitors and barristers for over 12 years, helping them to plan their careers, to change career direction and to find satisfying new opportunities.

To arrange a meeting at our Covent Garden or City offices with our legal specialists Simon Broomer LLB or Suki Bahra LLB, click the link below. We also provide telephone consultations if you are not in London.